CHIPPEWA INDIAN RESERVATIONS, MINNESOTA
Order of Restoration

Whereas under authority contained in the Act of Congress approved January 14, 1889 (25 Stat. L., 642), agreements were entered
into with the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota, providing for the cession to the United States of all lands within the Bois Fort
(Nett Lake), Fond du Lac, White Oak Point, Leech Lake, Cass Lake, Chippewa of the Mississippi, Winnibigoshish, and the White
Earth Indian Reservations, all in the State of Minnesota, and such ceded lands of these reservations were opened to sale and
entry under the homestead laws, the proceeds of such sale and entry to be placed to the credit of the Chippewa Indians of
Minnesota, and Whereas there is now remaining undisposed of within the said ceded areas, approximately 29,000 acres of land,
which is of little or no value for its original purpose of entry and settlement, but which will be of value to the Indians
if restored to tribal ownership, and where practicable, consolidated by exchanges with other land owners, and

Whereas the Tribal Executive Committee of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, the General Council of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa
Indians, the Superintendents in charge of the Consolidated Chippewa and Red Lake Agencies and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs
have recommended the restoration to tribal ownership of all undisposed-of lands included within the reservation cessions made
under the said Act of January 14, 1889, supra, of lands within the reservations named above;

Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of the Interior by section 3 of the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. L., 984), I hereby find that restoration to tribal ownership of all lands
which are now, or may hereafter be, classified as undisposed-of opened lands of the reservations named herein, ceded by the
Indians under the Act of January 14, 1889, supra, will be in the public interest, and the said lands are hereby restored to
tribal ownership for the use and benefit of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota, subject to any valid existing rights.